{"id":168700,"date":"2025-12-05T01:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/168700\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:10:09","slug":"report-says-iphone-air-is-losing-its-resale-value-at-a-record-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/168700\/","title":{"rendered":"Report says iPhone Air is losing its resale value at a record pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_17_air-13502.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone Air<\/a> is shaping up to be a sales flop, and that\u2019s also translating to its resale value. A new report from SellCell analyzed the depreciation of the iPhone 17 series based on trade-in price data from over 40 US-based buyback companies over a ten-week period. Based on the data, the Air has already lost between 40.3% and 47.7% of its initial value, depending on the storage trim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-row clearfix\">&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/25\/12\/iphone-air-losing-record-resale-value\/inline\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_001.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iPhone 17 series depreciation after 10 weeks\" width=\"400\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764897009_921_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>iPhone 17 series depreciation after 10 weeks<\/p>\n<p>The 256GB base model iPhone Air, which has an MSRP of $999, is now 40.3% cheaper on the used market. The 512GB trim (MSRP $1,199) lost 45% of its initial value, while the 1TB model, which retails for $1,399, will only get you $668 right now \u2013 that\u2019s a 47.7% difference. Note that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_16_plus-13316.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 16 Plus<\/a> with 128GB of storage lost a similar 41.6% of its initial value for the same ten-week period last year, while the vanilla 128GB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_16-13317.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 16<\/a> was sitting at -44.2% for the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-row clearfix\">&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/25\/12\/iphone-air-losing-record-resale-value\/inline\/-1200x900m\/gsmarena_002.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2022-2025 iPhone models average depreciation after 10 weeks\" width=\"660\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1764897009_202_gsmarena_002.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>2022-2025 iPhone models average depreciation after 10 weeks<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the iPhone 17 series is currently outperforming its predecessors in terms of resale value, averaging 34.6% depreciation for the ten-week period. The 256GB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_17_pro_max-13964.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17 Pro Max<\/a> is the best performer, only losing 26.1% of its initial value. The 256GB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_17_pro-14049.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17 Pro<\/a> has lost 32% of its value for the same period, while the baseline 256GB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_iphone_17-14050.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17<\/a> is in a similar spot at -33%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/iphone-air-depreciation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iPhone Air is shaping up to be a sales flop, and that\u2019s also translating to its resale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-168700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}